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Judlau Contracting and Dragados, partners working on the Long Island Rail Road extension project, have traded charges over who is responsible for a $250 million loss.
As Russia’s military has cut back Kalashnikov purchases, American enthusiasts have started buying civilian versions of weapons manufactured by the same factory.
The storied restaurant moved a step closer to winning interior landmark designation when the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed to schedule a hearing to review it.
Many of the marijuana-farming grandmothers of Swaziland, who supply South Africa’s drug market, started growing to support the offspring their children left behind when they died.
In Horton Foote’s “Harrison, TX,” conversation isn’t just a way of passing the time or swapping gossip.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 15, 2012, covering August 15, 2012.
Rick Ross
Zac Brown Band
Justin Bieber
One Direction
Bee Gees
2012Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (born 1956)[†]
Robert Wayne Birch was an American musician, best known as the bass player for Elton John.
2012Altamiro Carrilho, Brazilian flute player and composer (born 1924)[†]
Altamiro Carrilho was a Brazilian musician and composer. He is widely regarded as a master flutist and a major representative of the choro genre.
2012Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (born 1925)[†]
Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]